PassSonar: Visualizing Player Interactions in Soccer Analytics

Benoit Pimpaud
Nightingale
Published in
6 min readAug 16, 2019

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Democratized thanks to Michael Lewis’ Moneyball (both the book and then the movie adaptation), baseball and basketball have already gone quite far in the realm of sports analytics. Soccer is now also clearly in the place to take the next step, with a lot of work being done by companies like Opta and Statsbomb to explain and create analyses and statistical models.

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Benoit Pimpaud
Nightingale

Data Engineer. Twitter @Ben8t. 👀 From An Engineer Sight: a periodic about data-science, engineering, and design: fromanengineersight.substack.com